Second World War Books
Yale University Press Holocaust Odysseys
Book SynopsisDescribes the dangers to which Jewish refugees and immigrants were subjected in France and Italy as the Holocaust marched forward. This work uncovers a complex history of suffering and resilience through historical documents and personal testimonies from members of nine central and eastern European Jewish families, displaced to France.Trade Review"Zuccotti brings multiple tales together into a coherent, compelling, and dramatic narrative."—Maud Mandel, Brown University -- Maud Mandel"Drawing on both witnesses and documents, Holocaust Odysseys tells the extraordinary story of hundreds of Jewish refugees who found refuge in mountainous country in the south of France and who later made their way to Italy, fleeing the Germans who hunted them. Justifiably, we concentrate on those who were murdered during the Holocaust. But we learn as well from those who, through determination, resourcefulness, careful planning, good timing, unusual opportunities, Jewish resistance, the sometimes heroic generosity of French and Italians—but most of all through sheer good fortune—emerged alive when the war finally ended. As Susan Zuccotti's narrative vividly relates, they experienced the best and the worst. For any balanced account of the Holocaust, we need to be aware of both."—Michael R. Marrus, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto -- Michael R. Marrus"This is a book that Susan Zuccotti is uniquely capable of writing. Her knowledge is unparalleled, her handling of oral history is meticulous, a model of what can be done and what must be done to verify survivors’ accounts and then give it shape and form. Her narrative is compelling, skilled, sensitive, restrained and responsible."—Michael Berenbaum -- Michael Berenbaum "Although based primarily on the oral testimonies of these Jewish survivors, who were mostly teenagers at the time, this beautifully written book also draws on published memoirs and secondary sources. . . . Zuccotti has provided an important contribution to Holocaust historiography."— Vicki Caron, Shofar -- Vicki Caron * Shofar *
£42.75
Yale University Press The First Day of the Blitz
Book SynopsisOn September 7, 1940, the Blitz began. The strategic bombing of London, by over one thousand planes on that night alone, was recognised at the time as being a direct measure to break the country's resistance, 'softening' Britain's shores for the planned Operation Sealion. This book describes the impact that this terror had on the British people.Trade Review"'Stansky makes well-judged use of eyewitness accounts to highlight the reality behind the myth. Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times 'He offers a vivid account of how Londoners withstood attack. Recent events have shown how that resilient spirit lives into our own day. William Hay, Literary Review 'There is no shortage of books about the Blitz, but Peter Stansky's is up there with the best.' John O'Connell, Time Out"
£15.79
Yale University Press Strange Bird The Albatross Press and the Third
Book SynopsisThe first book about Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascismTrade Review“For one who has, since boyhood, regarded the second-hand bookshop as a paradise of total immersion, it is quite shocking to discover Albatross…Troy’s account is a painstaking act of exhumation… she sticks tenaciously to her unique dig, presenting us with a remarkable reconstruction.”—Duncan Fallowell, Spectator“Strange Bird is intensely researched and eminently readable--there’s even a harrowing escape story at its center. The lingering mystery of our principal, German-born Englishman John Holroyd-Reece, who may have been a spy, adds an element of intrigue as well. Troy’s book is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in publishing history, World War II, or modern Anglo-American literature.” —Stephen Darori, Israel Book Review “A cuckoo in the literary Nazi nest… Strange Bird is a story of art and business, but, given its ominous setting in Auden’s ‘low dishonest decade’ it is a story of war and politics too.”—Robert Eaglestone, THES“Beautifully written, more like a novel in places, but the story the author has uncovered is almost too implausible for the plot of the novel . . . This is part history, part biography, part novel, part academic treatise, part detective story, part bibliographical research, but above all it’s a thoroughly enjoyable read.”—Paperback Revolution“Troy narrates their stories with verve and considerable literary skill, practising narrative history in the literal sense, borrowing tropes and strategies from detective fiction.”— Anna Katharina Schaffner, TLS“Strange Bird reads like a highbrow thriller, where editors are double agents and all the great modern authors put in cameo appearances. That, along with Michele Troy’s engaging and personal style of writing, makes this book a page-turner.”—Jonathan Rose, author of The Literary Churchill"Strange Bird, a scholarly book that reads like an engrossing spy novel, vividly re-creates the strangeness of the book trade during the Third Reich and is one of the most original books on the publishing industry that's appeared in years."—Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University"Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, this fascinating microhistory of a German-based English-language publisher adds depth and subtlety to our understanding of the cultural policy of the Third Reich."—Alan E. Steinweis, University of Vermont"A wonderfully fine-grained narrative history of publishers, books, and readers across and within borders amid the constraint and chaos of Nazi-occupied Europe. Troy has dug deeply into the archives and the historical literature to document the cynical policy of Goebbels not only to censor but to demonstrate 'civilized' German 'tolerance' to the world."—Geoffrey Cocks, Albion College"This beautifully crafted book is a detective novel and psychological portrait rolled into one. Troy's in-depth archival research reveals her protagonists' aspirations, and the web of political intrigues and economic imperatives in which they became entangled."—Adriaan van der Weel, Universiteit Leiden
£33.25
Yale University Press Bletchley Park and DDay
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Using previously classified documents, this book casts the work of Bletchley Park in a new light"–Military History“Pleasingly, David Kenyon's Bletchley Park and D-Day shines out and makes for very interesting in-depth reading, as it gives an illuminating examination of the intelligence operations that helped to secure the Allied victory at Normandy”— Melody Foreman, Britain at War“[A] very readable, yet scholarly book…It can be recommended to both newcomers to SIGINT and to those who have already read extensively on the subject of Bletchley Park.”—David Harris, Radio User“[M]akes an important contribution to the historiography of World War II intelligence history in general and, more specifically, of Bletchley Park and to a broader understanding of the Bletchley players, who...have not received the attention that others who played a role in the successful Normandy invasion have.”—Mary Kathryn Barbier, Cercles "In this well researched and fascinating addition to the history of intelligence gathering at Bletchley Park, David Kenyon has added a new dimension to our understanding of the way in which the gathering and interpretation of signals intelligence (SIGNIT) added to the knowledge of enemy operations and strength, and how this information was analysed and used in the build up to Operation Overlord on D-Day."—Linda Parker, Second World War Research Group"David Kenyon and Bletchley Park is the dream ticket. A wonderful scholar and communicator writing about one of the world's most fascinating historical sites." - Dan Snow, historian, documentary filmmaker and television presenter
£12.88
WW Norton & Co Why We Watched Europe America and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThis book answers the most pressing question about the Holocaust: Why did the West do nothing as Hitler's killing machine took hold?
£25.19
WW Norton & Co The Plum Trees
Book SynopsisA poignant tale about one woman’s quest to recover her family’s history, and a story of loss and survival during the Holocaust.Trade Review"In Victoria Shorr’s searing novel, horror encompasses the characters in ways unknown to others less afflicted as they struggle to understand all that has been sacrificed and lost, at last finding solace in their uncompromising refusal to allow the crimes of the past to diminish and defeat them." -- Susanna Moore, author of Miss Aluminum"Victoria Shorr’s poignant novel, The Plum Trees, is less fiction than a reckoning with the past. Shorr tells a story of the evils that confronted millions of wartime Jews through the prism of one family’s desperate attempt to survive and the narrator’s equally desperate effort to find them decades later." -- Steven J. Ross, author of Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America"You’ll have trouble putting it down at all, much less slamming it shut. Written with urgency, elegance, and grace." -- Kirkus"Immersive ... This moving account makes clear the need to remember the horrors of war." -- Publishers Weekly
£20.89
John Wiley & Sons Inc Sisters in the Resistance
Book SynopsisCritical acclaim for Sisters in the Resistance Often moving . . . always fascinating . . . women in the FrenchResistance is a key subject. Margaret Weitz has gathered personaltestimonies . . . and set them in an intelligible context thathelps us understand how all French people--men andwomen--experienced the Nazi occupation. --Robert Paxton, MellonProfessor of Social Sciences, Columbia University, and author ofVichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944. Compulsive reading . . . a valuable book which vividly portraysthe intricacies of resistance within France, written in an easy butserious style. --Times Literary Supplement (London). An absolutely stunning and compelling chronicle of dauntlesscourage and unflagging patriotism. --Booklist. [Margaret Collins Weitz''s] well-researched, thoughtful study. . .has filled a gap in the history of World War II. --PublishersWeekly. Balancing absorbing narrative and astute analysis, MargaretCollinsTable of ContentsWomen and the War-within-a-War. France under German Occupation. French Women under the Vichy Regime. Organizing Resistance in France. Resistance: A Family Affair. Young and Alone. War Is a Man's Affair. Support Services: Women's Eternal Vocation. Dangerous Liaisons. Room and Board: Critical Concerns. Choosing Roles. Collaboration. Conclusion: Women and the Legacy of the Resistance. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£17.10
LUP - University of Michigan Press The War in Their Minds
Book SynopsisHistorians are increasingly looking at the sacrifices Germans had to make during World War II. In this context, Svenja Goltermann has taken up a particularly delicate topic, German soldiers' experience of violence during the war, and repercussions of this experience after their return home.
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Holocaust Corporations and the Law
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA terrific combination of fascinating historical detail, clear and accessible political and legal theory, and practical wisdom about an extremely important topic: the transnational Holocaust litigation (THL) brought in American courts in the 1990s using tort law to win reparations for victims. Even those who ultimately disagree with her optimism about THL will have to reckon with this important book."" - Ariela Gross, University of Southern California
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Holocaust Corporations and the Law
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA terrific combination of fascinating historical detail, clear and accessible political and legal theory, and practical wisdom about an extremely important topic: the transnational Holocaust litigation (THL) brought in American courts in the 1990s using tort law to win reparations for victims. Even those who ultimately disagree with her optimism about THL will have to reckon with this important book."" - Ariela Gross, University of Southern California
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Documents on the Rape of Nanking
Book SynopsisNewly revised resources for understanding the Rape of Nanking
£20.85
University of California Press Denying History
Book SynopsisTakes a look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. This work shows how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event.Trade Review"Should be required reading for everyone!" Martyrdom & Resistance
£22.50
University of California Press The Managed Casualty
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
£63.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Occupied France
Book SynopsisThis concise history of France from the occupation in 1940 to liberation in 1944 focuses on the struggle between those who favoured collaboration with the occupying Germans and those who opted to resist. Roderick Kedward shows how ordinary people experienced the occupation; he examines the politics and ideology of the Victory regime, and he discusses the many different forms of resistance launched from inside and outside France. He particularly emphasizes the changing nature of both collaboration and resistance as the pressure of the occupatoin intensified, and asks whether France was involved in a civil war by 1944.Trade Review"A splendid book. It provides an admirably concise narrative of the major events and personalities that shaped the experience of collaboration and resistance in France between 1940 and 1944 with many new insights drawn from recent research." Teaching History "A tour de force. To write a history of Vichy, collaboration, resistance and liberation in only 80 pages ... is a feat only as skilled and scholarly a historian such as Mr. Kedward could have carried out." Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary FranceTable of Contents1. Occupation. 2. Victory. 3. Collaboration. 4. Resistance. 5. Liberation. Guide to Further Reading. References. Index.
£37.95
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Causes of the Second World War
Book SynopsisThe Second World War was the greatest conflict in history. This book provides an introduction to the causes of the war. It charts the complex route from the failed peace following the First World War through the rise of right-wing radicalism in Italy and Germany, to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, and its subsequent spread to the Pacific.Trade Review"Crozier's book is an important addition to the literature on the deeper causes of the Second World War. Not only does the author present a comprehensive examination of the diplomacy of the European powers during the entire inter-war period, he also gives considerable attention to events in the Far East - a topic that is rarely dealt with in tandem with European developments. But it is his examination of the period in light of the historiography of the subject of the causes of the war that makes his work a significant contribution. Crozier's efforts to place the historical debates in context add to the work's value to the student or casual reader. Scholars of diplomatic history of the inter-war period will find the work thought provoking. The author presents an in-depth reconsideration of British foreign policy and, particularly, of appeasement and all it has come to stand for." Christine A. White, The Pennsylvania State University "This book is first class. It is perfect for those working for A levels, Highers or SYS and for university students at every level." HistoryTable of ContentsConsultant Editor's Preface. Preface & Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Powers in 1919 and After. 2. The Making of the Inter-War World, 1919-1923. 3. The Failed Peace, 1919-1933. 4. The Challenge of Fascism and the Democratic Response. 5. The International System Challenged 1933-1936. 6. The Deepening Crisis, 1936-1938. 7. The Outbreak of War in Europe. 8. The Crisis in the Far East. 9. From War to World War. 10. Interpretations and the Changing View. Conclusion. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination
Book SynopsisThe Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination attempts to explain and not to condemn the responses and reactions of the democratic world to the attempted destruction of European Jewry. It concentrates on the impact of the Holocaust on ordinary people in the democracies and examines the actions of the nation--state in the light of popular responses.Trade Review"An outstanding contribution to the history of the Holocaust and the basis for further research."Mark Levene, University of Warwick "Scholarly, readable, informative and exhaustively researched book. A formidable contribution to the study of the bystander in Holocaust history." Jewish Chronicle "This is a wonderful book, written with passion and minute scholarship combined. I could not put it down. It depresses, challenges, and reinterprets Holocaust history in the light of what the British and Americans did and thought." Times Educational Supplement "This book is not only a first-rate history but also very timely. Indespensable background reading for anybody who wants to share in creating a multicultural society. It is not simple history: it is about people. But is committed history written by a master-historian." Jewish SocialistTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: The Holocaust in Global Perspective and as Social History. Part I: 1933-1939:. 1. Liberal Culture and the Nazi Persecution of the Jews, 1933-1939. 2. Their Brothers' (and Sisters') Keepers?: The Nazi Persecution of the Jews and the Labour Movement. 3. An Alien Occupation: Domestic Service and the Jewish Crisis, 1933 to 1939. Part II: The Second World War:. 4. Liberal Culture and the Contemporary Confrontation with the Destruction of European Jewry. 5. From the 'Enemy Within' to 'This Bestial Policy of Cold-Blooded Extermination': Britain, the United States and the Jews, September 1939 to December 1942. 6. Rules of the Game: Britain, the United States and the Holocaust, 1943 to 1945. Part III: The Post-War World:. 7. Liberal Culture and the Postwar Confrontation with the Shoah. Conclusion.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Europe between Democracy and Dictatorship
Book SynopsisFischer offers a captivating analysis of Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century, from the optimism at the turn of the century to the successive waves of destruction of the First and Second World Wars. Written by a leading authority in this field, the book draws upon his areas of expertise Reflects the most recent scholarship in this period of history While laying stress onEurope''s major powers and the seminal events of the earlier twentieth century,Fischer pays due attention to the smaller European countries from the Atlantic to the Black Sea and the Baltic to the Mediterranean Extends beyond the political, sociological, and economic paradigms to include extensive references to the European cultural scene Organized both as a broad chronology and thematically, in order to allow for historical insights and entry into the key debates and literature Trade Review“Conan Fischer has written one of the finest short surveys of early twentieth-century Europe that I know, and one that will prove worthwhile to beginning students and advanced scholars alike.” (European History Quarterly, 1 January 2015) "The book also contains a sufficient number of maps and illustrations, an important consideration from the point of view of students. In short, this is certain to become a standard text for the teaching of 20th-century European history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate collections." (Choice, 1 September 2011)Table of ContentsList of Maps ix List of Figures x Foreword xi 1 The European Paradox 1 2 The Coming of War 7 2.1 A Balkans War 7 2.2 Why the War Need Not Have Spread 13 2.3 Why the War Spread 25 3 Fighting the War 40 3.1 The Opening Gambits: 1914 40 3.2 The Elusive Victory: 1915 47 3.3 The High Noon of Attrition: 1916 52 3.4 The Tipping Point: 1917 59 3.5 Defeat and Victory: 1918 66 4 Ending the War: Revolutions and Peacemaking 69 4.1 The Home Front in Wartime 69 4.2 Revolution in Russia 75 4.3 Revolution in Germany 90 4.4 The Legacy of War and the Treaty of Versailles 100 4.5 Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean 116 4.6 Western Upheavals 130 4.7 The Fascist Revolution in Italy 135 5 Revision and Recovery, 1919–1929 143 5.1 From Versailles to the Dawes Plan 143 5.2 From Locarno to the Young Plan 171 5.3 Economy and Society: A Faltering Recovery 180 5.4 A Contested Modernity 187 6 The High Noon of the Dictators 199 6.1 Economic Armageddon: The Great Depression in Europe 199 6.2 The Rise of the Nazis, 1919–1933 208 6.3 Hitler in Power, 1933–1939 221 6.4 Dictatorship beyond Germany 234 6.4.1 Challenges in the surviving democracies 235 6.4.2 Nationalists, Fascists, and Bolsheviks 248 7 The Return to War 271 7.1 From Global Disarmament to War: 1932–1939 271 7.2 The Reasons for War 278 7.3 From Poland to the Fall of France: September 1939–June 1940 286 7.4 From Vichy to Pearl Harbor: June 1940–December 1941 299 8 Europe Eclipsed 309 8.1 Competing Caesuras: 1940–1 or 1945? 309 8.2 Hitler’s War – from Triumph to Oblivion, 1941–1945 311 8.3 Holocaust 322 9 Europe: An Honorable Legacy? 327 Notes 331 Bibliography 358 Index 372
£89.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Europe between Democracy and Dictatorship
Book SynopsisFischer offers a captivating analysis of Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century, from the optimism at the turn of the century to the successive waves of destruction of the First and Second World Wars. Written by a leading authority in this field, the book draws upon his areas of expertise Reflects the most recent scholarship in this period of history While laying stress onEurope''s major powers and the seminal events of the earlier twentieth century,Fischer pays due attention to the smaller European countries from the Atlantic to the Black Sea and the Baltic to the Mediterranean Extends beyond the political, sociological, and economic paradigms to include extensive references to the European cultural scene Organized both as a broad chronology and thematically, in order to allow for historical insights and entry into the key debates and literature Trade Review“Conan Fischer has written one of the finest short surveys of early twentieth-century Europe that I know, and one that will prove worthwhile to beginning students and advanced scholars alike.” (European History Quarterly, 1 January 2015) "The book also contains a sufficient number of maps and illustrations, an important consideration from the point of view of students. In short, this is certain to become a standard text for the teaching of 20th-century European history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate collections." (Choice, 1 September 2011)Table of ContentsList of Maps ix List of Figures x Foreword xi 1 The European Paradox 1 2 The Coming of War 7 2.1 A Balkans War 7 2.2 Why the War Need Not Have Spread 13 2.3 Why the War Spread 25 3 Fighting the War 40 3.1 The Opening Gambits: 1914 40 3.2 The Elusive Victory: 1915 47 3.3 The High Noon of Attrition: 1916 52 3.4 The Tipping Point: 1917 59 3.5 Defeat and Victory: 1918 66 4 Ending the War: Revolutions and Peacemaking 69 4.1 The Home Front in Wartime 69 4.2 Revolution in Russia 75 4.3 Revolution in Germany 90 4.4 The Legacy of War and the Treaty of Versailles 100 4.5 Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean 116 4.6 Western Upheavals 130 4.7 The Fascist Revolution in Italy 135 5 Revision and Recovery, 1919–1929 143 5.1 From Versailles to the Dawes Plan 143 5.2 From Locarno to the Young Plan 171 5.3 Economy and Society: A Faltering Recovery 180 5.4 A Contested Modernity 187 6 The High Noon of the Dictators 199 6.1 Economic Armageddon: The Great Depression in Europe 199 6.2 The Rise of the Nazis, 1919–1933 208 6.3 Hitler in Power, 1933–1939 221 6.4 Dictatorship beyond Germany 234 6.4.1 Challenges in the surviving democracies 235 6.4.2 Nationalists, Fascists, and Bolsheviks 248 7 The Return to War 271 7.1 From Global Disarmament to War: 1932–1939 271 7.2 The Reasons for War 278 7.3 From Poland to the Fall of France: September 1939–June 1940 286 7.4 From Vichy to Pearl Harbor: June 1940–December 1941 299 8 Europe Eclipsed 309 8.1 Competing Caesuras: 1940–1 or 1945? 309 8.2 Hitler’s War – from Triumph to Oblivion, 1941–1945 311 8.3 Holocaust 322 9 Europe: An Honorable Legacy? 327 Notes 331 Bibliography 358 Index 372
£28.45
Harvard University Press The Battle for Children
Book SynopsisThe Battle for Children links two major areas of historical inquiry: crime and delinquency with war and social change. In a study based on impressive archival research, Fishman reveals the impact of the Vichy regime on one of history’s most silent groups—children—and offers enlightening new information about the Vichy administration.Trade ReviewSarah Fishman approaches the subject of juvenile justice in France with admirable breadth, bringing to bear simultaneously a close study of politics, legal texts and institutions, professional interests, intellectual positions, and cultural values. Without minimizing Vichy's ugly aspects, she has emphasized the regime's capacity to mobilize experts and push through changes that turn out to be durable. Her conclusions give a significant new nuance to studies of France under the Vichy regime. -- Robert O. Paxton, Columbia UniversityMakes a contribution to a little-known aspect of Vichy social policy and to the longer-term history of juvenile criminal justice and treatment in France. Sarah Fishman's study is based on important archival work; the materials on internal Vichy debates are exceptionally rich and intelligently utilized. Her prose is absolutely first-rate. -- Robert A. Nye, Oregon State UniversityFishman makes a praiseworthy contribution to the growing body of Foucault-influenced scholarship on criminality in this study of the transformation of the juvenile justice system in 1940s France. She argues that the rise in juvenile crime during the Occupation, which contemporaries attributed to the absence of POW fathers, was in reality the result of economic privation and the rise of a generalized defiance of authority symbolized by the black market and the Resistance...A rare work of historical scholarship with clear contemporary relevance. -- D. A. Harvey * Choice *Loaded with numerous examples and a clear use of language, this book is an asset to research on juvenile courts and related political, social and expert views. -- Ingrid Van Der Bij * The European Legacy *
£65.41
Harvard University Press Technology of Empire Telecommunications and
Book SynopsisThe central argument of this study of the development of a communications network linking the far-flung parts of the Japanese imperium is that modern telecommunications not only served to connect these territories but, more important, made it possible for the Japanese to envision an integrated empire in Asia.Trade ReviewYang carefully examines Japan’s submarine and wireless telegraph and telephone networks and the ways in which the emerging system grew within Japan’s expanding empire, as well as the ways in which the configuration of the system supported the empire and was, in turn, shaped by the demands and complexity of it. Scholars and graduate students interested in modern Japan, comparative empires, and/or technology and society will learn much from this new, important book. -- W. D. Kinzley * Choice *Table of ContentsFigures, Tables, Maps, and Photographs Abbreviations Epigraph Sources Introduction Part I: Genesis, 1853-1931 1. An Emerging Empire in the Age of Submarine Telegraphy 2. Wireless and the Crisis in the Informal Empire Part II: Technology, 1931-1940 3. Toward a New Order on the Continent 4. Inventing Japanese Technology 5. Envisioning Imperial Integration Part III: Control, 1936-1945 6. Negotiating Control at Home 7. Consolidating Control in China 8. Gaining Control in Southeast Asia Part IV: Network, 1939-1945 9. Integrating Systems 10. Operation, Meltdown and Aftermath Conclusion Bibliography Index
£35.66
Harvard University Press Alamein
Book SynopsisIn this compelling account of the decisive World War II battle of El Alamein, Jon Latimer brings to life the harsh desert conflict in North Africa. This is the story of two of the most intriguing commanders of the war and the story of the infantry soldiers who fought in a scorched wilderness.Trade Review[Latimer's] extensive research is evident both in the book's organization and in the endnotes...This well-written and-organized book is highly recommended. -- Lt. Col. Charles M. Minyard * Library Journal *Exhaustively researched and comprehensive...[Latimer's] inclusion of veterans' recollections and memoirs will grab the interest of generalists looking for something more than simple war stories. Latimer's critical but balanced view of Rommel, British general Montgomery and others is welcome; the inclusion of their opinions of, and dealings with, eachother are in keeping with the best professional military history...All aspects of the battle are covered...All well presented in a carefully crafted and exciting style...Painstaking yet gripping, this should be the definitive account of the battle itself for years to come. * Publishers Weekly *Jon Latimer's Alamein is the work of a former British Army officer, a meticulous military history inclusive of accurate and often hitherto unknown details. It is a classic, near-encyclopedic reconstruction. -- John Lukas * Los Angeles Times *Latimer meticulously describes how, after a couple of dispiriting years of desert warfare, British and Commonwealth forces achieved in October 1942 the victory they craved over German and Italian forces at El Alamein in Egypt. -- Lawrence D. Freedman * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Maps Introduction Part I: An Obscure Railway Halt 1. Colonial Rivals 2. Enter Rommel 3. The Fall of Tobruk 4. The Alamein Line 5. Malta 6. Enter Monty 7. Alam Halfa 8. Lightfoot 9. In the Line 10. Final Preparations Part II: The Battle 11. Barrage 12. The Assault 13. The Armour Stalls 14. Crisis Conference 15. Crumbling 16. The Defence of Outpost Snipe 17. Thompson's Post 18. Supercharge 19. The Beginning of the End 20. The End of the Beginning Appendix: Orders of Battle, 23 October 1942 Notes Bibliography Index
£27.86
Harvard University Press Collaboration
Book SynopsisStudies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers.Trade ReviewA fascinating book that offers a wealth of material on issues and events that are not well known. The prose is informal and engaging, bringing the reader into the problems Brook faced in researching such a sensitive topic. The stories he explores are part both of a distinctive Chinese history and a common (and difficult) history of conquest and rule in the twentieth century. -- R. Bin Wong, Director, UCLA Asia InstituteBrook has written a very rich study, drawing on exceptional primary sources, that brings forward new facts and deals with burning issues. -- Marie-Claire Bergère, author of Sun Yat-senBrook has with great care taken up the sensitive topic of Chinese collaboration with the Japanese conquerors during the Sino-Japanese War--a subject that the Chinese are still hesitant to address. His study concentrates on local collaboration in the Yangtze delta region in Shanghai's hinterland, avoiding the more shocking cases of puppet regimes in north and northeast China and the 'national government' in Nanjing. China, unlike France after World War II, had no chance to work out the moral and psychological issues related to collaboration, and even today outrage at Japanese atrocities obscures questions of Chinese collaboration. Brook builds his thoughtful analysis on Japanese archival documents, Chinese memoirs, and interviews. By concentrating on the local level, he makes vivid the personal relationships between Chinese and Japanese administrators as they dealt with day-to-day problems. He concludes that there was no shortage of Chinese elites ready to work for the Japanese, but that the relationship remained complicated and tense. -- Lucian Pye * Foreign Affairs *[A] finely researched and subtly nuanced study of collaboration in the Lower Yangtze Valley during the initial year of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45... What is remarkable is that Professor Brook has uncovered from both the Chinese and Japanese sides archival and memoir literature of a quality that allows him to present case studies that illuminate the ambiguities and complexities of collaboration, not to mention the essential mechanics of how it was sought and arranged...This work is not only a major contribution to the history of the Sino-Japanese War and that of modern China; it also makes an invaluable addition to the comparative history of wartime collaboration through recounting the Chinese experience of survival under the occupation state. -- David P. Barrett * Chinese Historical Review *Timothy Brook's superb book is an example of the doing and writing of history at its best...In addition to painting a compelling picture of the multileveled and multidirectional complexity and ambiguity of politics and society under the occupation, Brook's work is studded with notable insights...Brook's writing style is at the same time urbane and engaging. In sum, this is an excellent study and a great read as well. -- R. Keith Schoppa * American Historical Review *Timothy Brook's study of wartime collaboration between Chinese local elites and Japanese army agents is a welcome and necessary part of the new historical thinking about wartime China...Brook's book is a meticulously researched, subtly argued, and courageous study of a still delicate topic. It will be of value to all readers who wish to explore the dynamics of the 1937-45 Sino-Japanese War in more detail, and adds depth and maturity to a field that has sometimes seemed the prisoner of the type of nationalist paradigms that Brook seeks to undermine. -- Rana Mitter * International History Review *Timothy Brook has produced a superb book about the vexed problem of collaboration...Of all the studies of collaboration—or those that touch on it—in East Asian studies, Brook’s provides us with the most interesting perspective. One of the book’s great strengths is the clear and methodical way in which it proceeds through its historical investigation. Brook hews closely to his principal sources and texts, which he both utilizes and interrogates. He cross-examines Chinese and Japanese, collaborative and denunciatory, occupier and resistor texts, often with regard to the same phenomenon, if not the same event or person. Yet Brook is sufficiently a stylist that this procedure rarely lapses into a dry, judicial mode of inquiry. At the same time, the conclusions he draws feel remarkably faithful to his methodology. -- Prasenjit Duara * The China Journal *
£26.06
Harvard University Press Ghettostadt
Book SynopsisGhettostadt is a terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto’s place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Łódź’s beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and the ghetto’s affairs, and the “ordinary” inhabitants of the once Polish city.Trade ReviewThis wonderful history examines the Nazis' effort to transform the bustling , energetic metropolis of Łódź, with its 200,000 Jews, into the German-dominated Litzmannstadt -- from which the Jews were to disappear. Ghettostadt is a splendid, clear-eyed, detailed, and masterful look at the human and urban landscape of the teeming Jewish world the Nazis destroyed. -- Michael R. Marrus, University of TorontoA finely-wrought reconstruction of everyday life and death in the Łódź Ghetto. Horwitz is that most welcome of historians, one who conveys minute details while keeping in view the large political and moral issues they raise. This powerful book takes a prominent place in the ongoing discussion of what the Jews could and could not do to save themselves in the face of the Nazi determination to murder them all. -- Jeffrey Herf, author of The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the HolocaustGordon Horwitz's unflinching and heartbreaking narrative of occupied Łódź juxtaposes the Nazi plans for its urban "cleansing" and renewal with the inexorable destruction of its ghettoized Jewish community. Even after so many accounts and interpretations of the Holocaust, we owe Horwitz a great debt as he dispassionately examines the most contentious issues, including the notorious role of Ghetto administrator Chaim Rumkowski, the negligible options for resistance, and the vain hope of playing for time. -- Charles S. Maier, author of The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National IdentityThe Nazis' use of bureaucracy to achieve their genocidal aims comes through clearly in this historical tour de force. The Nazis attempted to "re-engineer" the Polish city of Łódź, home to more than 230,000 Jews (one-third of the city's population) before the war, into a model--and Judenfrei--German city embodying health and beauty they called Litzmannstadt. This required forcing the Jews into a ghetto with the help of Jewish leaders, especially the arrogant, dictatorial and reportedly lascivious industrialist Chaim Rumkowski...Horwitz's understated prose helps put into relief the full horror of these events. * Publishers Weekly *It is remarkable that Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City is the first English-language study of the Lodz ghetto and Gordon Horwitz is the first scholar to draw together the mass of material that has been published or come to light since the appearance of the ghetto chronicle in 1984. Moreover, Horwitz synthesises the history of both the ghetto and the city. Few local studies in this genre (Auschwitz is the exception) have dared to attempt anything so ambitious...He brilliantly juxtaposes what passed for life in the ghetto with the fun and games on the "Aryan" side. His knack of being authoritative and heart-rending at the same time lifts this book above mere history; it is a fitting memorial to a Lodz that is no more. -- David Cesarani * Times Higher Education Supplement *"Litzmannstadt, City of the Future," was designated by Hitler as a special center of urban development. As resources were poured in from the Reich, it would, declared its new German mayor, become a magnet for German immigrants from the East. And yet, as Gordon J. Horwitz points out in Ghettostadt, his brilliantly readable book on the city during World War II, there was a dark side to this glowing picture, a side barely mentioned at all by the mayor and his cohorts. For the process of becoming German also involved ridding the city of its Jews...Horwitz's vivid narrative makes effective use of unpublished sources in German, Yiddish, and Polish to paint a detailed picture of how the German population was strengthened by more than 20,000 ethnic German immigrants from Galicia, Volhynia, and further afield, within a few months of the German conquest. The Jews were removed from their sight by being forced into a ghetto. -- Richard J. Evans * New York Review of Books *[A] chilling new history...Ghettostadt is more than just another recounting of the horrors of the Holocaust. Surprisingly, it is the first English-language study of the Łódź ghetto. Horwitz relies on a rich mix of primary sources--including diaries, testimonies, and memoirs of the Łódź Jews themselves--to tell the story of the Łódź ghetto in a fashion that is as thorough and compelling as it is horrifying. -- Matthew Shaer * Christian Science Monitor *This is a remarkable book. With honorable modesty and an unerring tone, Gordon J. Horwitz has accomplished something quite rare and important. In a single book he conveys the awesome scale of the Holocaust--with its multitudes of victims and its long years of suffering and dread--while also emphasizing the particularity of individual experiences. This meticulously researched work makes us familiar with the uncommon lives of men, women and children as they were herded to a common tragic fate. -- Michael T. Kaufman * Moment *Beautifully produced, and well-illustrated with contemporary photographs, this is a powerful, though at times a heart-rending account that must be put alongside Harold Marcuse's Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp and Arno J Mayer's Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution" in History as an indispensable source for anyone trying to comprehend this appalling time in European history. -- Carla King * Irish Times *Ghettostadt is wrenching, absolutely heartbreaking. We of course already know the horrific outcome. The Jews then remaining in the ghetto, hoping against hope, did not. Part of the sheer horror of it all is the recounting of daily life, amid disease, hunger, and death, each rumor generating waves of anxiety, anguish, and panic, particularly as deportations increased. -- John Merriman * Boston Globe *In this rich and suggestive book, Horwitz tells a tale of two cities: Litzmannstadt, the Nazi name for Lodz, which was to be a model for a German future, and the Ghetto, a doomed remnant of a sordid past. The two were linked: for Litzmannstadt to succeed, the Ghetto and its Jews had to disappear...What makes Horwitz's book so illuminating is his urban perspective. He tells how mass murder unfolded in the context of a particular city...[A] very important book. -- Samuel D. Krassow * New Republic *Horwitz has written an indispensable account of the _ód_ Ghetto, juxtaposing the Nazi objective of making _ód_, renamed Litzmannstadt, a city "cleansed" of Jews, with the exploitation of its ghetto labor. -- J. Fischel * Choice *[Horwitz's] ground-up approach has the merit of vividness, and brings home the daily horrors of ghetto life and the impossible ethical choices that faced the inhabitants. -- Mark Mazower * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents* Prologue * Autumn 1939: Conquest * A City without Jews * The Enclosure * The Ghetto Will Endure * The Ghetto and the City of the Future * Banishment * Departure, Worry, and Disappearance *"Give Me Your Children!" * Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? * Numbered Are the Days * Epilogue * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Sailor Diplomat
Book SynopsisThis biography casts new light on the life and career of Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo. Connecting his experiences as a naval officer to his service as foreign minister and ambassador, Mauch reassesses Nomura's contributions as a hard-nosed realist whose grasp of the underlying realities of JapaneseU.S. relations went largely unappreciated.Trade ReviewNomura Kichisaburo is an infamous figure, known primarily as the Japanese ambassador to the U.S. who only notified U.S. officials of Japan’s intent after his country’s ‘sneak attack’ on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This new biography seeks to put Nomura’s ambassadorship in the context of his long career in the Japanese navy. It examines his growth as a navy officer along with his consistent belief that Japan could not defeat the U.S. in an armed conflict, a view that grew out of his naval experience. The author, a historian at the University of Western Sydney, Australia, does not absolve Nomura of responsibility for the diplomatic failures of his mission, but instead seeks to show how his views about Japanese–American relations both before and after WWII were remarkably prescient. Moreover, Mauch shows that Nomura’s actions can only be understood in the context of his naval career—hence the ‘sailor diplomat’ moniker. There is much here that will expand general and professional readers’ understanding of Japan’s disastrous diplomacy, and those same readers will learn much about the organization and character of the prewar Japanese navy. -- W. D. Kinzley * Choice *
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Harvard University Press The Collaboration
Book SynopsisTo continue doing business in Germany, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films attacking Nazis or condemning persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals this collaboration and the cast of characters it drew in, ranging from Goebbels to Louis B. Mayer. At the center was Hitler himself—obsessed with movies and their power to shape public opinion.Trade ReviewUrwand draws on a wealth of previously uncited documents to argue that Hollywood studios, in an effort to protect the German market for their movies, not only acquiesced to Nazi censorship but also actively and enthusiastically cooperated with that regime’s global propaganda effort. -- Jennifer Schuessler * New York Times *[An] eye-opening study of Hollywood and the Nazi elite… The Collaboration unfolds a story that rather knocks the shine off the golden age of cinema… Urwand has done some energetic digging in the archives, quoting letters, memos and newspaper reports to uncover a shameful policy of compromise and kowtowing on the part of the studio bosses. And what lends the story its peculiar irony is that those bosses who did their utmost to appease the crazed ideology of Nazism were by and large Jews themselves. -- Anthony Quinn * The Guardian *Urwand…sheds new light on the way the studio bosses responded to Nazi pressure, from 1933, when Hitler assumed power, to 1941, when the United States entered the war… Drawing on American and German archival material, the author shows that Hollywood began working with the Nazis in 1933. The collaboration was not passive, but voluntary: part of a strategy necessary in order for the studios to maintain their market in Germany—which had more movie theaters than any other country in Europe… Urwand describes how the Nazis tried to shape the very content of American films—and often succeeded. -- Samuel Blumenfeld * Le Monde *Urwand’s book uncovers important material about the relationship between the American film industry and the Nazi regime… Readers may or may not agree with Urwand’s conclusion about the perils of Jewish self-denial. But in highlighting it, he provides a useful reminder that scholarship on the Nazi era continues to serve as a mirror in which Jews view themselves. -- Gavriel Rosemfeld * Forward *Urwand…presents explosive new evidence about the shocking extent of the partnership between the Nazis and major Hollywood producers… [A] riveting book… As you turn its pages you realize with dismay that collaboration is the only fitting word for the relationship between Hitler and Hollywood in the 1930s. Using new archival discoveries, Urwand alleges that some of the Hollywood studio heads, nearly all of whom were Jewish, cast their lot with Hitler almost from the moment he took power, and that they did so eagerly—not reluctantly. What they wanted was access to German audiences. What Hitler wanted was the ability to shape the content of Hollywood movies—and he got it… What is shocking and new about Urwand’s account is its blow-by-blow description of Hollywood executives tailoring their product to meet the demands of the Nazi regime. -- David Mikics * Tablet Magazine *Hard-hitting… Urwand has dug deep…and come up with some genuine revelations… The story is quite dramatic, and shameful. -- Philip Kemp * Times Higher Education *Urwand’s book about how Hollywood conducted business with and within Germany after Hitler’s ascent to power is a fascinating examination of capitalist amorality in the face of evil. Urwand does a good job of cataloging the ways Hollywood studios—largely headed by immigrant Jewish entrepreneurs—took measures to placate the Nazis so they could continue to show films in Germany throughout the 1930s, until the Nazi invasion of Poland… Urwand has uncovered a very interesting, heretofore unknown, true Hollywood story. -- Philip Martin * Arkansas Democrat-Gazette *[A] provocative book. -- Rosemary Neill * The Australian *The Collaboration expertly dismantles Hollywood’s rose-tinted view of history, proving it wasn’t standing up to fascism as it has claimed, but eagerly appeasing the Nazis so long as the money was coming in. -- Kyle Ryan * A.V. Club *[The] revelations in Ben Urwand’s controversial exposé, The Collaboration, are nothing short of astonishing, going well beyond what was known about Hollywood’s timidity during that era. With damning archival evidence, Urwand argues that the studios, motivated by profits, were reluctant to abandon the German market, where American films were popular and Hitler himself was a fan… Urwand’s finely documented account is even more chilling—in large part because the ‘collaborators’ to whom he points were American, and in many cases also Jewish. -- Julia M. Klein * Boston Globe *[Urwand] has revealed in terrifying detail how Hollywood was at the whim of the Nazis throughout the 1930s—censoring films and dropping others in a sinister collaboration with Hitler. * Daily Mail *Impeccably researched and impressively argued, Ben Urwand’s gripping volume systematically reveals the way major Hollywood studios were willing to protect their financial interests in the German market by appeasing the Nazi regime. Urwand has unearthed remarkable evidence from archives in Germany and America, confirming that the road to hell was paved with a thousand concessions. Hollywood studios went to astonishing lengths not to offend or upset the Nazi regime. What began with minor adjustments to scripts eventually reached a point where projects that were unsympathetic to Germany’s past or critical of the Nazis were simply never made… The studios didn’t just follow a policy of accommodation they became willing partners with the Nazis to reach an understanding of what could be mutually beneficial to both parties. The book is such a revelation because it goes against the grain of commonly held assumptions… Urwand is particularly good at marshalling hard facts and solid evidence that builds into a horrifying indictment of studios that continued to operate in Germany throughout the first eight years of Hitler’s rule… Even as the full horrors of the Nazi regime became apparent to the world, Hollywood continued to offer the hand of collaboration, a fact all the more ironic considering that many of the studio bosses were Jewish… This is a book that challenges every rose-tinted view of Hollywood’s Golden Age. It sheds a piercing light on dark deeds and is an invaluable work of political history that has all the page-turning urgency of a thriller. -- Allan Hunter * Herald (Scotland) *The Collaboration felt genuinely original and eye-opening as Ben Urwand systematically revealed the way major Hollywood studios were willing to protect their financial interest in the German market of the 1930s by appeasing the Nazi regime. The road to hell was paved by a thousand concessions. -- Allan Hunter * Herald (Scotland) *The book is a fascinating take on the shady politics of Hollywood and should be read by anyone interested in going behind the glamour of 1930s cinema. -- Taylor Downing * History Today *Urwand has dug deep in the German archives and found evidence that the Nazis’ business dealings with some of the studios were much closer than previously realized. He also draws attention to the flagrant lobbying of the Nazi emissary to Hollywood. -- J. Hoberman * London Review of Books *Urwand’s investigation of this dark chapter in the history of the American film industry is as intriguing as it is compellingly told. -- Theis Duelund * Los Angeles magazine *Urwand’s book details in sometimes shocking fashion how the Hollywood film industry, including studios run by legendary Jewish film moguls such as Louis B. Mayer, were willing to pre-screen their films for Nazi officials and remove content they found objectionable. -- Andy Goldberg * Military.com *In Urwand’s account of the relationship between the American film industry and the government of Germany in the 1930s, he shows that Hollywood studios put profits ahead of scruples in their dealings with the Nazis. -- Lisa Jarvinen * Philadelphia Inquirer *Urwand is tearing down the popular impression that the 1930s Hollywood community stood united in efforts to combat the Nazi regime. Quite the contrary, says Urwand, whose research reveals a shocking level of collaboration (or Zusammenarbeit, i.e. ‘working together’) between the German government and Tinseltown’s studios—many of which were famously headed by Jews… The Collaboration depicts a studio system in which films were submitted for approval to aggressive German propaganda officials, who demanded cuts and changes to material deemed ‘detrimental to German prestige’—not only to film versions created for the German market, but for the U.S. and countries around the world. -- Lesley M. M. Blume * Vanity Fair online *With great attention to detail, Urwand describes multiple contacts between the studios and German officials, and he apparently breaks some new ground with his descriptions of Georg Gyssling, who became a Hollywood fixture after Hitler came to power in 1933. -- Roger Currie * Winnipeg Free Press *A welcome addition to understanding Hollywood’s response to the rise of Nazism. -- J. Fischel * Choice *Offers a keen, unsettling look at the unholy alliance Hollywood made with the Nazis, which allowed both to keep packing movie theaters in Germany up until the outbreak of war… There was pressure on the studios to censor defense of Jews in certain films and suppress films that portrayed Nazis in an unflattering light (The Mad Dog of Europe). The result of this complicated and slippery relationship, as Urwand depicts with subtlety, was the absolute disappearance from film of Nazis and Jews until the end of the decade. * Kirkus Reviews *This eminently accessible, often riveting account of a little-understood chapter in American cinema history should appeal to a wide general readership. -- Roy Liebman * Library Journal *Urwand keeps the jaw-dropping revelations coming in this damning indictment of the complicity of the major Hollywood studios—and their mostly Jewish heads—in the Nazis’ campaign to exterminate Europe’s Jews… Urwand deserves immense credit for this groundbreaking—and truly unique—take on the WWII era. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *A tremendous piece of work, fully sustained, building momentum charged by thrillingly detailed storytelling, increasing suspense, and a consistent movement from outrages to atrocities, with a stunning conclusion of heroism and tragedy—and it is as well a devastating RIP to what we’ve been told, all down these years, about ‘the genius of the system.’ -- Greil MarcusFull of startling and surprising revelations, presented in exemplary fashion, without any moralizing or sensationalism. The Collaboration shows how Hollywood and especially the big studios went along with German demands to censor movies not only before but especially after the Nazi seizure of power. -- Richard J. Evans
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Harvard University, Asia Center Runaway Wives Urban Crimes and Survival Tactics
Book SynopsisZhao Ma explores lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in Beijing from 1937 to 1949. He shows how the everyday survival tactics they devised allowed them to subtly deflect, subvert, and escape without leaving powerful forces such as the surveillance state, reformist discourse, and revolutionary politics.
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Harvard University Press A Democracy at War
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, America's democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a broad-ranging social, political, military, and diplomatic history, William O'Neill reveals how the U.S. won its victory despite its reluctance to enter the war, and despite proceeding by costly half-measures even after committing to battle.Trade ReviewA grand and sensitive synthesis of what the war meant to an entire generation and of how unity, valor, and victory came only after a period of profound unpreparedness, confusion, and reluctance. O’Neill writes with vivid clarity. -- Douglas Brinkley * Houston Chronicle *An excellent book…perceptive and sensitive…bears resemblance to Tolstoy’s great novel War and Peace, not as literature but as a humane perspective that juxtaposes the average soldier who fights on bravely and stoically to generals and political leaders who make a mess of things. -- John Patrick Diggins * New Leader *A distinct and splendid historical style… O’Neill writes with wit and clarity… He offers new and colorful treatment of such topics as immigration policy, women and the war, films and other entertainments, minorities, and labor relations. His chapter on ‘everyday life’ is a minor masterpiece in which he repeatedly captures a new trend in a pithy phrase. -- George Q. Flynn * American Historical Review *O’Neill has written, with passion and vivid clarity, a wide ranging social, cultural, political, military and diplomatic history which examines ‘how and why America won the war’ despite its late entry, cumbersome political system and debilitating prejudices… The result of this ambitious project is a grand synthesis which draws on many of the scholarly texts, biographies and memoirs generated by this momentous period, as well as contemporary media accounts and published correspondence… Written with warmth and humour, indignation and outrage, and with a profound affection for America’s democratic culture, O’Neill has produced an informative synthesis which raises important questions about American democracy and the relationship in it between popular opinion, electoral ambitions and policymaking. -- Dianne Kirby * Borderlines: Studies in American Culture *Bill O’Neill is a master storyteller, and this is his biggest story in his distinguished career. He makes it into his masterpiece. This is the best single volume on the American experience in World War II that I have read. -- Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962–1972 and Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973–1990World War II not only transformed the world but also revolutionized America. It fundamentally changed work and family life, race relations, the economy, and the federal government’s view of its responsibilities. It is thus a cause for celebration that William O’Neill has brought his large gift for evocative narrative and shrewd analysis—as well as his affection for America’s democratic culture—to such a pivotal period in American history. -- E. J. Dionne, Jr., author of Why Americans Hate PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments 1. Day of Infamy 2. America in 1941 3. The Lion and the Albatross: FDR and Lindy 4. The Force of Events 5. The Government Cannot Mobilize 6. Rout and Recovery 7. The People Are Willing 8. Operation Torch and the Great Debate over Strategy 9. The Sea of Dreams 10. The Politics of Sacrifice 11. Minorities and Women: The Democratic Failure 12. The Transformation of Everyday Life 13. Two Wars in the Pacific: Guadalcanal to Luzon 14. Air Power: The Democratic Delusion 15. The GI 16. Overlord 17. Victory in Europe 18. The War Winds Down at Home 19. The Destruction of Japan 20. The Reckoning Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Atomic Doctors
Book SynopsisPhysicians were essential to the Manhattan Project, keeping participants and Americans near test sites safe from radiation. But they also downplayed the risks when military exigency demanded. James Nolan tells the story of these conflicted healers, who used their medical authority to enable the most lethal form of warfare humanity has yet devised.Trade ReviewUsually histories of the nuclear project at Los Alamos, N.M., during World War II dwell on tensions between the military officers overseeing the project and the physicists doing the necessary research. In this striking study, James L. Nolan Jr. looks at the disquieting participation of members of a third profession, medicine…[A] powerful and readable book. -- Thomas E. Ricks * New York Times Book Review *An admirable account of the central role of physicians in the Manhattan Project and its aftermath…Nolan’s skillful weaving of his grandfather’s story into an account of the pressures exerted on medical ethics by time, place, and circumstance makes for compelling reading. -- Jonathan D. Moreno * American Scientist *Through a many-layered story of people making momentous decisions under the most trying of circumstances, James Nolan plumbs deep questions about science and technology, medicine and war. Atomic Doctors is a special achievement—an important work of scholarship that is also a gripping and moving read. -- Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and The Glass CageFascinating and disturbing, Atomic Doctors provides a behind-the-scenes view of the birth of the bomb. It’s a crucial addition to the literature of the atomic age. It also raises essential questions about science, society, and the moral compromises made in their service. -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth ExtinctionJames Nolan combines a compelling narrative of his grandfather’s experiences on the Manhattan Project with illuminating history and a morally sensitive account of medical dilemmas at a time of national crisis. Atomic Doctors is a profound and important book. -- Mary Ann Glendon, author of The Forum and the TowerWhat did it mean to have a calling as a physician in the making and use of the atomic bomb at the dawn of the nuclear age? James Nolan tells a riveting story of his grandfather and other physicians associated with the Manhattan Project, all of whom were faced with determining their allegiance to the Hippocratic ideal of primum non nocere (first, do no harm) while interacting with both scientists and soldiers intent on creating an atomic weapon that they believed would end the war. Nolan’s historical account is also a brilliant sociological assessment of the abiding tensions among these very different constituencies and of a cultural belief in the blessings of technology that continue to define modern life and its discontents. -- Jonathan B. Imber, author of Trusting DoctorsDescribe[s] how American doctors became connected to troubling events during World War II that raised thorny moral issues around medicine and war. -- Lawrence D. Freedman * Foreign Affairs *A disturbing account of the early years of the atomic bomb, when safety took second place to winning World War II…Haunting…A solid narrative of America’s painful introduction to atomic radiation. * Kirkus Reviews *This fine-grained and lucidly written account illuminates a little-known aspect of America’s nuclear history. * Publishers Weekly *James L. Nolan’s Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age focuses on the role of his grandfather James F. Nolan (1915–83) as a research physician in the unfolding drama of developing a nuclear bomb…[Nolan] clarifies important historical facts and opens an interdisciplinary academic discourse about the role of nuclear technology in American society. This approach makes the meticulously researched publication, perfectly placed seventy-five years after the Trinity test, a very readable book, despite its tragic subject. It gives a truthful insight into the complexity of a physician’s conscience and complicity at the dawn of the nuclear age. -- Eva Castringius * H-Net Reviews *Nolan's Atomic Doctors is a splendid, valuable, and necessary book. -- Leo van Bergen * Medicine, Conflict and Survival *That the military acted to deal with the medical concerns about radiation only when faced with legal pressure or loss of face is also an all too modern concept for not just the military but society…There is much for a reader to take away from the book regarding history and ethics. -- Lt. Col. Scott C. Martin, USAF * Air & Space Power Journal *As the grandson of the protagonist of the book, James L. Nolan, Jr. crafts a stunning narrative, in which personal accounts and family experiences are successfully amalgamated with academic rigor, situated within a large historical framework…Offer[s] counter-narratives that shed new insight into the dominant narrative of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. -- Yuki Miyamoto * Western Historical Quarterly *Provides valuable historical background on the longstanding efforts to protect human health and the environment and understand the effects of radiation exposure…A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the history of nuclear research, weapons development and testing. -- Eric Boyle, Office of Legacy Management, US Department of EnergyIlluminates how Dr. Nolan at Los Alamos and two physician colleagues, Louis Hempelmann and Stafford Warren, dealt with the frightening human effects of nuclear radiation from the bomb. Combining an effective analysis of their efforts with a compelling telling of Dr. Nolan’s own story, the book enlarges America’s atomic bomb experience as a case study of truly disruptive technology in war and society. -- Sidney Perkowitz * Science Sketches *Carefully researched and engagingly written…As Nolan concludes, the willingness of health professionals—including physicians—to do the military’s bidding, and to condone experiments that were ‘technically sweet’ but ethically dubious, means that ‘the long shadow of the Manhattan Project…is still with us. -- Gregg Herken * California History *This story, full of both poignant family life and the challenges of working at remote U.S. military locations, is a tale worth reading not only for the historical value, but also to illustrate the dilemma that radiation posed to US leadership and downward through the ranks to the medical personnel…Highly recommended. -- Mark L. Maiello * Journal of Nuclear Materials Management *It is hard to imagine a more appropriate author for this impressive work of scholarship and interpretation than [Nolan]…It is an eminently readable history of the early years of the atomic age, presented as a case study that raises broader questions about the relationship between technological determinism and human freedom. -- Rachelle Linner * Technology and Society *In this gripping book, James L. Nolan Jr. narrates…a compelling commentary on not only the ethics of atomic warfare but also the technological experiments of our own age, including artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. -- Abena Dove Osseo-Asare * Technology and Culture *
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Harvard University Press The Ambiguity of Virtue
Book SynopsisWorking with the Nazi-appointed Jewish Council in Amsterdam, Gertrude van Tijn helped many Jews escape. But she faced difficult moral choices. Some called her a heroine; others, a collaborator. Bernard Wasserstein’s haunting narrative draws readers into this twilight world, to expose the terrible dilemmas confronting Jews under Nazi occupation.Trade Review[Wasserstein] reconsiders the impossible situation of the ‘Jewish councils’ in Western Europe through a reconstruction of the life of Gertrude van Tijn, a leading member of Amsterdam’s council. As Wasserstein reminds readers, too much of the debate about the Jewish councils has been carried out in the terms proposed by Hannah Arendt, who emphasized complicity and culpability and failed to notice, much less understand, the extraordinary courage and creativity employed by activists like van Tijn. Wasserstein’s textured account recreates the tense and essential interactions with Nazi authorities as well as Allies and potentially friendly enemies; the unbearable daily emotional algorithms of rescue work, including choosing whom to exempt from deportation; and the inevitable rivalries and betrayals. But it also evokes the absolutely vital sustaining power of passionate friendships and loves in cataclysmic times. -- Dagmar Herzog * New York Times Book Review *In the life of Gertrude van Tijn, Bernard Wasserstein has found the perfect subject for examining the appalling options that faced Jewish leaders under Nazi rule… Wasserstein tells van Tijn’s story beautifully, weaving the historical background almost seamlessly into the narrative. While leaning on her unpublished autobiography, he corroborates her activity using documents from numerous archives. His evaluations are judicious and humane. -- David Cesarani * Literary Review *Absorbing… Wasserstein’s book is a powerful indictment, if another were needed, of the world’s failure to respond to the plight of Europe’s Jews in the 1930s and 40s… The Ambiguity of Virtue is a valuable, accessible book. It introduces readers to a fascinating woman, reminds us that the central experience for European Jews in the 1930s and even into the 40s was of being trapped in a nightmarish bureaucracy that made the figure of the refugee sadly central to political life, and allows us to conclude that ambiguity need not undo the possibility of virtue. As thousands of child refugees from Central America arrive at the U.S. border, van Tijn’s example is sadly only too relevant. -- Dorian Stuber * Open Letters Monthly *[A] sober, scholarly and often fascinating book… Partly a biography, partly a history of the destruction of Dutch Jewry… Was van Tijn, who died in the U.S. in 1974, a Nazi dupe or a champion of her people? Wasserstein’s carefully argued, compassionate narrative suggests that at different points in her life she was both. -- Rosemary Neill * The Australian *The story of Gertrude van Tijn is an amazing tale, but as Wasserstein’s magnificent biography shows yet again: in wartime anything was possible. * Het Parool *Wasserstein reexamines [Van Tijn’s] life and weaves her story beautifully into the fabric of Holocaust history… This book is an important contribution to the field of Holocaust studies, as it shows the ethical complications that Jewish leaders faced, especially leaders involved with refugees… Wasserstein eloquently articulates why we should remember Gertrude van Tijn. -- Allison Schottenstein * PopMatters *Whoever thought ‘virtue’ could be ambiguous? But the fraught period during which the book’s protagonist, Gertrude van Tijn, was active ensured that matters were rarely straightforward, as Bernard Wasserstein so adeptly relates. -- Emma Klein * The Tablet *In an attempt to understand her motives and actions, Wasserstein takes a close look at the background and behavior of his subject. He gives readers not just a personal portrait of van Tjin, a bourgeois German Jew who embraced Zionism as a young woman and acquired Dutch nationality upon her marriage in 1920, but also a stark picture of the plight of European Jews before and during World War II… A scholarly, thoroughly documented work that elucidates historical issues and explores moral ones. * Kirkus Reviews *
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Harvard University Press German Resistance to Hitler
Book SynopsisHoffmann examines the growing recognition by some Germans in the 1930s of the malign nature of the Nazi regime, the ways in which these people became involved in the resistance, and the views of those who staked their lives in the struggle against tyranny and murder.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One. The Rise of Hitler 1. Path to Dictatorship 2. Consolidation of Power 3. Toward World Conquest Part Two. The Resistance 4. Forces of Opposition 5. Varieties of Thought 6. Military Involvement 7. Failed Conspiracies 8. Contacts Abroad 9. Assassination Attempts Conclusion Selected Bibliography Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Hitlers World View
Book SynopsisEven the demonic Hitler had a comprehensive philosophy, and Eberhard Jäckel probes deeply into the dictator’s mind to determine how he viewed the world.Trade Review[Jäckel’s] critique of the self-contradictions historical research has brought upon itself by abandoning systematic analysis and relying instead on intuitive judgments and the obiter dicta of ex-Nazis such as Hermann Rauschning is cogent and convincing. So also is his analysis of the development of Hitler’s ideas from the ‘conventional foundations’ with which he began in 1920. -- Geoffrey Barraclough * New York Review of Books *A highly intelligent and very valuable book by one of the ablest writers on Nazism in Germany. Hitler’s world view—the intellectual system which was the dynamic force of his career—is too often omitted from the history of his movement. Jäckel has reconstructed it with great skill and scholarship. His book fills a serious gap: it shows us the human motor which drove that otherwise inexplicable machine of brutal conquest and extermination. -- H. R. Trevor-RoperTable of ContentsForeword by Franklin L. Ford Translator's Foreword Chapter I. The Problem of a National Socialist Weitanschauung II. The Outlines of Foreign Policy Ill. The Elimination of the Jews IV. The State as a Means to an End V. The View of History as a Synthesis VI. From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary Notes
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Harvard University Press The Holocaust the Historians Paper
Book SynopsisThe renowned author of The War Against the Jews sets out to solve a historiographical mystery. Why has the mass murder of European Jews been overlooked or trivialized by historians throughout the world? In a forceful, outspoken work, Lucy Dawidowicz looks for explanations.Trade ReviewProfessor Dawidowicz’s work embodies high standards of scholarship. The analysis is shrewd and generally fair, and the comparisons often brilliantly perceptive… A valuable contribution to the literature of the Second World War and the Holocaust. * New York Times Book Review *Ms. Dawidowicz is always incisive, sharp, analytical and honest… Her analysis especially of German historiography is fascinating. * American Jewish History *Marshalling an impressive array of scholarship, [Dawidowicz] takes the reader through a careful examination of the writings about the holocaust in England and the US, Germany, the USSR, and Poland. * Review of Books and Religion *
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Harvard University Press Belonging to the Nation
Book SynopsisIn 1939 Nazis identified Polish citizens of German origin and granted them legal status as ethnic Germans of the Reich. After the war Poland did just the opposite: searched out Germans of Polish origin and offered them Polish citizenship. John Kulczycki’s account underscores the processes of inclusion and exclusion that mold national communities.Trade ReviewKulczycki has written a fine examination of the origins of the idea to purify nations and its application during and after the Second World War, a process that resulted in the resettlement of many interwar Polish citizens in Germany. Kulczycki seeks to show how the stories of those who left Poland for West Germany in the 1950s do not easily fit the narrow categories of expulsion or economic migration… Kulczycki has written an engaging and deeply informative account of nationalization policies in the German–Polish borderlands. The book presents many of the findings of German and Polish scholars of the last twenty years in English and will be helpful to advanced students and scholars alike. Judicious and fairly written, the book reminds readers that the need to respect the cultural variety of the region remains relevant to this day. -- Winson Chu * H-Net Reviews *Belonging to the Nation is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the contentious re-engineering of European societies after the Second World War. Kulczycki’s magisterial account is the first systematic treatment in English of the enormously complicated and hotly contested question of how to deal with several million people with connections to Polish language and culture who had nonetheless spent the war classified as ‘ethnic Germans.’ Were they Poles who had been misidentified as Germans or rather Germans now potentially being mistaken for Poles? Kulczycki carefully tracks the fierce arguments and oscillating policies generated by this attempt to pin down national identities, demonstrating that the question of who belonged to the nation was never definitively answered. -- James E. Bjork, author of Neither German nor PoleThe complicated ambiguities and ambivalences in national affiliations—their exigencies, constraints, and sometimes surprising pragmatics—have recently inspired some of the best work on the twentieth-century nationality conflicts of east-central Europe. A wise and seasoned specialist in the Polish experience of German rule, Kulczycki now brings this lens to the Polish-German borderlands under successive regimes of occupation, with characteristically revealing and important results. -- Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as Fascism
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Harvard University Press Probing the Limits of Representation Nazism the
Book SynopsisCan the Holocaust be compellingly described or represented? Or is there some core aspect of the extermination of the Jews of Europe which resists our powers of depiction, of theory, of narrative? In this volume, twenty scholars probe the moral, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of an account or portrayal of the Nazi horror.Trade ReviewWhat might it mean to call the Holocaust a ’crisis in form’…the Shoah nonetheless challenges our powers to draw something like a meaning, or maybe even more than one, from this powerful sense of meaningfulness. At the same time that it renders the task of historical comprehension ethically imperative, it threatens to expose the inadequacies, or at the very least the limitations of our familiar modes of coming to understand cultural events. -- Irene Tucker * Poetics Today *Table of ContentsIntroduction Saul Friedlander 1. German Memory, Judicial Interrogation, and Historical Reconstruction: Writing Perpetrator History from Postwar Testimony Christopher R. Browing 2. Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth Hayden White 3. On Emplotment: Two Kinds of Ruin Perry Anderson 4. History, Counterhistory and Narrative Amos Funkenstien 5. Just One Witness Carlo Ginzburg 6. Of Plots, Witness and Judgments Martin Jay 7. Representing the Holocaust: Reflections on the Historians' Debate Dominick LaCapra 8. Historical Understanding and Counterrationally: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage Dan Diner 9. History beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma Eric L. Santner 10. Habermas, Enlightenment, and Antisemitism Vincent P. Pecora 11. Between Image and Phrase: Progessive History and the "Final Solution" as Dispossession Sande Cohen 12. Science, Modernity, and the "Final Solution" Mario Biagioli 13. Holocaust and the End of History: Postmodern Historiography in Cinema Anton Kaes 14. Whose Story Is It, Anyways? Ideology and Psychology in the Representation of the Shoah in Israeli Literature Yael S. Feldman 15. Translating Paul Celan's "Todesfuge": Rhythm and Repetition as Metaphor John Felstiner 16. "The Grave in the Air": Unbound Metaphors in Post-Holocaust Poetry Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi 17. The Dialectics of Unspeakability: Language, Silence, and the Narratives of Desubjectification Peter Haidu 18. The Representation of Limits Berel Lang 19. The Book of the Destruction Geoffrey H. Hartman Notes Contributors Index
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Harvard University Press The Idealist Wendell Willkies Wartime Quest to
Book SynopsisWendell Willkie lost the 1940 presidential election but became America’s most effective ambassador, embarking on a 7-week plane trip to bolster the allied cause, encountering everyone from de Gaulle and Stalin to Chiang Kai-shek. Against a wave of nationalism, Willkie promoted a message of global interconnection and peaceful engagement.Trade ReviewIf isolationist slogans such as ‘America First’ drive you to despair, The Idealist might be thebook for you…Zipp…has captured Willkie’s ‘brief, blazing moment,’ a little-remembered interlude when America was at war but already worrying about the postwar order. Younger readers, dismayed by today’s various nationalisms, may be comforted to learn that isolationist and internationalist impulses—like so much else—are cyclical phenomena. -- Roger Lowenstein * Wall Street Journal *As a new Administration now looks to reimagine US foreign policy in an increasingly chaotic world beset by global challenges from the pandemic to climate change, Zipp’s account of Willkie’s travels and ideas offers some food for thought. -- Michael Sheldrick * Forbes *Exhilarating and timely…Makes the case for a return to Willkie’s thinking about interdependence and international cooperation…By a coincidence, Zipp’s book has appeared amid a global pandemic that has both highlighted the need to transcend nationalism and its intractability. -- Dexter Fergie * New Republic *The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examine American attitudes toward internationalism, decolonization, and race in the febrile atmosphere of the world’s first truly global conflict. By showing that Willkie’s wartime tour offered a preview of globalization, Zipp challenges now-dominant interpretations of World War II. -- Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of FaithThis deeply researched and wonderfully written book leads us to wonder how the twentieth century might have unfolded if the United States had embraced Wendell Willkie’s ‘new world idea.’ It’s not too late, because Willkie’s wisdom rings through The Idealist and speaks urgently to today’s America. -- Stephen Kinzer, author of All the Shah’s MenThis is a beautifully written, ambitious, confident, and capacious book that does a wonderful job of situating Wendell Willkie and his vision for ‘one world’ in a historical context. Its breadth is truly impressive. The reader has a sense of being a participant on Willkie’s journey, seeing the world as it stood in 1942. An outstanding book. -- Melani McAlister, author of The Kingdom of God Has No BordersZipp’s breathtaking account of Wendell Willkie’s wartime world tour centers on the transformational concept of One World. Tackling Willkie’s idealistic, often maligned push for an independent and profoundly interconnected world, this riveting tale speaks to some of the most pressing concerns of our present age. -- Christopher Nichols, Director, Oregon State University Center for the HumanitiesThis insightful and nuanced portrayal successfully elucidates Willkie’s globalist politics and America’s emergence as a world leader. * Publishers Weekly *Zipp's engrossing book will be of interest to not just historians, but anyone interested in understanding how ordinary Americans responded to the global changes in governance, politics, and culture that took place during these prewar and postwar years. -- Steven P. Rodriguez * New Books Network *
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Harvard University Press Escape from Vichy
Book SynopsisEarly in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.Trade ReviewA riveting, heart-wrenching story of exile, intellectual cross-fertilization, and political awakening among refugees from Hitler’s Europe who escaped together to Martinique. Jennings has written a brilliant new chapter in the transatlantic history of negritude, anti-colonialism, and anti-racism. -- Alice L. Conklin, The Ohio State UniversityAn excellent book. Using a wide array of sources, Jennings vividly describes a short-lived but important episode in the refugee experience during World War II—the desperate attempts of those who went to Marseille in order to emigrate to the French Caribbean. He examines the cultural creativity that emerged as a result of the encounter between the refugees, many of whom were Surrealists, and native black artists and intellectuals on Martinique, especially Aimé and Suzanne Césaire, the founders of the ‘negritude’ movement. -- Vicki Caron, Cornell UniversityJennings tells the little-known story of the escape route that took some thousands of Jews, Spanish republicans, and others menaced by Nazi Germany from Marseille to France’s Caribbean colony of Martinique. Many of those saved in this way from the clutches of Nazism were prominent artists and intellectuals, some of whom—Claude Levi-Strauss, André Breton, Wilfredo Lam—enjoyed, or would enjoy, international renown. We learn about Martinique’s complex relations with the United States, which feared that many of the refugees destined for the island were potential fifth columnists eager to attack Americans from within. And it is fascinating to see how the connection between negritude and surrealism played out in Martinique. -- Edward Berenson, New York University[An] eye-opening history of the Martinique ‘refuge’ during World War II. Escape from Vichy provides a rich social history of one of the understudied escape routes of World War II, one fraught with internment camps and Pétainist antisemites, yet one that allowed some five thousand refugees to flee Nazi-ridden Europe. -- Nancy L. Green * Journal of Modern History *
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Harvard University Press Japan in the American Century
Book SynopsisNo nation was more deeply affected by America’s rise to power than Japan. The price paid to end the most intrusive reconstruction of a nation in modern history was a cold war alliance with the U.S. that ensured American dominance in the region. Kenneth Pyle offers a thoughtful history of this relationship at a time when the alliance is changing.Trade ReviewA brilliant, elegantly written work destined to become one of the essential books on United States–Japan relations. It reflects Pyle’s broad knowledge and lifelong effort to bring coherence to the grand strategy of the United States since its rise as a dominant power in Asia and the consequences of that strategy for both nations. -- Ezra F. Vogel, author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaThis is a fine book, intelligent and necessary. Pyle, a distinguished historian of modern Japan, writes in a subtle and supple way, with an unerring sense of balance. His careful linking of the unconditional surrender demand by the U.S. to the character of the Japanese postwar settlement is fresh and provocative. I hope those who make American policy toward Japan read what he has to say. -- Andrew Barshay, author of The Gods Left First: The Captivity and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Northeast Asia, 1945–1956In a book that devotes equal space to the view from Japan and the U.S., [Pyle] shows equal discernment in recounting the ways in which each country came to collide and then cohabit with the other over the last hundred years. On each side Pyle uncovers things missed by a regiment of prior historians. -- Edward Luttwak * London Review of Books *
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Harvard University Press The Girls Next Door
Book SynopsisTo boost soldiers’ morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women, along with famous entertainers, overseas. This history of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the story of war and its ties to life in peacetime.Trade Review[A] fascinating history. -- Lawrence D. Freedman * Foreign Affairs *[Vuic] expertly illustrates contradictions inherent in the military’s reliance, since WWI, on U.S. women to provide respectable recreational programs and at the same time alluring entertainment for soldiers. * Choice *Besides illuminating women’s significance in military life, [Vuic] chronicles changes in assumptions about gender, sexuality, and race in American culture for the last 100 years…A fresh contribution to women’s history. * Kirkus Reviews *This well-researched and well-written work delves into an aspect of women’s service in wartime that is not often portrayed. * Library Journal *An important and timely book by a first-rate historian who is also a superb storyteller. Vuic richly captures the often contradictory demands made on women who volunteered for overseas troop support programs: to embody home-front domesticity but provide sensual entertainment; to be attractive but not too beautiful; to be friendly but not too close. Yet her book also underscores the women’s deep belief in the work as a genuine contribution to the war effort. -- James Wright, President Emeritus, Dartmouth College, and author of Enduring VietnamWomen were recruited to entertain, distract, and support male soldiers overseas during America’s twentieth-century wars, but their time in the spotlight was fleeting. Vuic returns them to center stage and reveals how utilizing feminine charms to advance military goals inadvertently gave these women opportunities to shape military culture and alter the trajectories of their own lives. A pleasure to read, bold and provocative, The Girls Next Door is a brilliant reinterpretation of the American experience of war. -- Jennifer D. Keene, author of Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of AmericaThe fascinating story of the women who, accompanying soldiers to war, volunteered for a different sort of service to the nation. YMCA Girls, Salvation Army Lassies, Red Cross Donut Dollies, and USO performers were meant to serve as symbols of home, entertaining ‘our boys,’ boosting morale, and channeling men’s sexuality. Vuic’s insightful analysis of military entertainment is also a tale of the changing shape of the U.S. military over course of the twentieth century. -- Beth Bailey, author of America’s ArmyThe Girls Next Door represents a major advancement in our understanding of gender and war. In fluid, vivid prose, Vuic shows the many complex ways in which home fronts and fighting fronts were interconnected through a complicated web of gendered interactions. A must read for anyone interested in war and society. -- Michael Neiberg, author of The Path to WarFilled with real people and real emotion, The Girls Next Door traces the provision of entertainment for American troops from WWI to the 1990s, showing that despite dramatic changes in context, a durable sexualization of women followed them into war zones across the twentieth century. The research, knowledge, and storytelling on display here are all outstanding. I wholeheartedly recommend this book. -- Andrew Huebner, author of Love and Death in the Great WarVuic also examines the changing perceptions about gender roles in America’s social and military institutions, making this a useful read for anyone with an interest in American society over the past century. * NYMAS Review *An outstanding example of the intersections of gender history, the history of sexuality, and military history as well the connections between the home front and the battlefront. Its lucid and engaging style, careful analysis, and thorough documentation will appeal to scholars and lay readers alike. -- Susan M. Hartmann * Home Front Studies *A wonderful example of how scholars of war and society can interrogate the intersections of gender history, the history of sexuality, and military history…[Vuic’s] premise and treatment of the evolution of women military entertainers over time provides invaluable consideration and methodological approaches that can be employed by all scholars of the First World War. -- Nathan K. Finney * First World War Studies *
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Princeton University Press The Right Wrong Man
Book SynopsisIn 2009, Harper's Magazine sent war-crimes expert Lawrence Douglas to Munich to cover the last chapter of the lengthiest case ever to arise from the Holocaust: the trial of eighty-nine-year-old John Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk's legal odyssey began in 1975, when American investigators received evidence alleging that the Cleveland autoworker and naturalizeTrade Review"The case of [Demjanjuk] the death camp guard turned autoworker, related with authority and clarity."--New York Times Book Review "Douglas relates with authority and clarity the story of these complex legal processes... [He] does justice to both the story's factual complexities and its moral and political conundrums...The Right Wrong Man, from its summary title to its thoughtful postscript is an impressive work, as well as a timely one in its demonstration of the power of legal systems to learn from past missteps."--Anthony Julius, New York Times Book Review "A masterful account... Douglas deftly delivers disquisitions on nuanced legal questions as if they were plot points in a thriller, making his demanding book a pleasure."--Wall Street Journal"A tour de force owing to Douglas' piercing analysis of all the legal complexities."--Foreign Affairs"[An] admirable book... Douglas's narrative and analysis of this convoluted legal odyssey [is] extraordinarily impressive."--Christopher R. Browning, Times Literary Supplement "[M]asterful... [D]eftly delivers disquisitions on nuanced legal questions as if they were plot points in a thriller, making his demanding book a pleasure even for readers unschooled in the particulars of international law."--The Wall Street Journal "As Holocaust historian Lawrence Douglas has written, the Eichmann proceedings were the 'Great Holocaust Trial,' an unparalleled reckoning with the universal moral burden of the Nazi regime and its crimes. But what came--what could possibly come--after Eichmann? This is the question that guides Douglas's new book, The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial... By Douglas's account, the Demjanjuk affair was a tumultuous encapsulation of much of the post-Eichmann politics of international justice, shaped as they were by the wax and wane of European communism, the creation of a nascent global architecture of legal accountability for atrocities perpetrated both during the Holocaust and elsewhere, and the global process of coming to terms with Europe's violent past."--Daniel Solomon, The New Republic "An excellent legal-minded elucidation of the long trail toward the conviction of a notorious concentration camp guard."--Kirkus "[A] story that needed telling."--Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times "Sophisticated and suspenseful, the book provides a trenchant analysis of the legal and moral dilemmas surrounding trials for genocidal crimes against humanity."--Glenn Altschuler, Jerusalem Post "[A] tour de force."--Foreign Affairs "The Right Wrong Man is an important read about the accountability those who do wrong ultimately face."--San Francisco Book Review "Formidable ... a thoughtful treatise."--Cleveland Jewish Star "In his indispensable history of the Demjanjuk case, Lawrence Douglas, the James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College, delivers a reader-friendly history of this controversial case that provides a valuable understanding of how German law evolved from eschewing the legal principles established by the Nuremberg Tribunal to the 2011 Demjanjuk case, which marked the first time a German court had ever tried, let alone convicted, 'one of the thousands of auxiliaries who served as foot soldiers of Nazi genocide.'"--Jack Fischel, Jewish Book Council "A perceptive and thought-provoking analysis... The story told by Lawrence Douglas in The Right Wrong Man is a vital part of that narrative of barbarism [and] a remorselessly fascinating account of the longest trial of any defendant accused of Nazi crimes."--Oliver Kamm, Jewish Chronicle "[A] thoughtful treatise."--Arnold Ages, Chicago Jewish Star "Lawrence Douglas's immensely readable book absorbs the reader in the twists and turns of the Demjanjuk saga, helping us understand both why justice required prosecuting Demjanjuk for his 'egregious moral complicity,' and how the job got done."--Kevin P. Spicer, CommonwealTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 The Beginning of the End of Something 17 2 John in America 26 3 Ivan in Israel 68 4 Demjanjuk Redux 109 5 Demjanjuk in Munich 137 6 Was damals Recht war ... 161 7 Memory into History 194 8 The Trial by History 216 9 The Right Wrong Man 247 Postscript 258 Acknowledgments 261 Notes 263 Sources 299 Index 321
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Princeton University Press Reluctant Accomplice
Book SynopsisA work on the wartime letters of Dr Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942.Trade Review"It's difficult or impossible to summon sympathy for a soldier in Hitler's army--even one with no hatred for Jews--but the letters home of Konrad Jarausch do peel away stereotypes."--Neal Gender, American Jewish World "A detailed and disturbing portrait of a so-called average German soldier of the time... Jarausch has edited 350 of his father's letters, sent from occupied Poland and the PoW camps in Russia between 1939 until his death. His father was too old at 40 to be involved in fighting but he was close enough to the front to give gruesome accounts of the enormous Russian death toll in the camps... [W]hat these letters reveal in astonishing detail is that his belief in German superiority begins to weaken as he notices and hears of the murderous German reprisals, shootings and ethnic cleansing."--Louis Nowra, The Australian "Thought-provoking in its ambiguities... By age, temperament and conviction, then, Jarausch seemed designed for the role of skeptic about the Nazi regime. Reluctant Accomplice charts the growth of Jarausch's belief that Hitler's war was a disaster, for humanity and for Germany itself... The case of Jarausch suggests that, in a situation where radical evil holds sway, goodness has to become equally radical in order to combat it."--Adam Kirsch, The Tablet "Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press), is a revealing glimpse into the mind of a patriotic German who was skeptical of the Nazi leadership and soured on the fascist regime."--Sheldon Kirshner, Canadian Jewish News "Jarausch's voluminous set of correspondence offers a thoughtful and detailed account of life as a German soldier on the Eastern Front... It shows just how much coming to terms with the Nazi past is still an ongoing process."--Hester Vaizey, European History Quarterly "This remarkable compilation of wartime letters is nothing short of one of the most humbling and insightful reads you're likely to come across this year."--David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews "Reluctant Accomplice is a fascinating, important, and highly readable collection. The documents add depth, complexity, and a tragically human dimension to our understanding of how German soldiers experienced the war on the Eastern Front."--Alan E. Steinweis, Journal of Modern History "In this outstanding edition, Konrad H. Jarausch and his assistants Klaus J. Arnold and Eve M. Duffy have done an excellent job. The book contains an impressive biographical essay about the son's search for the father he never knew. Writers may succeed in producing approaches of this kind--at least sometimes. But historians? Usually such attempts fall flat. Yet this edition impressively proves the contrary--it is indeed possible."--Christian Hartmann, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface vii Foreword by Richard Kohn xiii In Search of a Father: Deaing with the Legacy of Nazi Complicity 1 Part I: The Polish Campaign 45 Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 53 Part II: Training Recruits 139 Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 146 Part III: War of Annihilation in Russia 237 Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 246 Acknowledgments 367 Notes to "In Search of a Father" 369 Selected Suggestions for Further Reading 381 Index 383
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Princeton University Press Reluctant Accomplice A Wehrmacht Soldiers Letters
Book SynopsisReluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch,Trade Review"It's difficult or impossible to summon sympathy for a soldier in Hitler's army--even one with no hatred for Jews--but the letters home of Konrad Jarausch do peel away stereotypes."--Neal Gender, American Jewish World "A detailed and disturbing portrait of a so-called average German soldier of the time... Jarausch has edited 350 of his father's letters, sent from occupied Poland and the PoW camps in Russia between 1939 until his death. His father was too old at 40 to be involved in fighting but he was close enough to the front to give gruesome accounts of the enormous Russian death toll in the camps... [W]hat these letters reveal in astonishing detail is that his belief in German superiority begins to weaken as he notices and hears of the murderous German reprisals, shootings and ethnic cleansing."--Louis Nowra, The Australian "Thought-provoking in its ambiguities... By age, temperament and conviction, then, Jarausch seemed designed for the role of skeptic about the Nazi regime. Reluctant Accomplice charts the growth of Jarausch's belief that Hitler's war was a disaster, for humanity and for Germany itself... The case of Jarausch suggests that, in a situation where radical evil holds sway, goodness has to become equally radical in order to combat it."--Adam Kirsch, The Tablet "Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front (Princeton University Press), is a revealing glimpse into the mind of a patriotic German who was skeptical of the Nazi leadership and soured on the fascist regime."--Sheldon Kirshner, Canadian Jewish News "Jarausch's voluminous set of correspondence offers a thoughtful and detailed account of life as a German soldier on the Eastern Front... It shows just how much coming to terms with the Nazi past is still an ongoing process."--Hester Vaizey, European History Quarterly "This remarkable compilation of wartime letters is nothing short of one of the most humbling and insightful reads you're likely to come across this year."--David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews "Reluctant Accomplice is a fascinating, important, and highly readable collection. The documents add depth, complexity, and a tragically human dimension to our understanding of how German soldiers experienced the war on the Eastern Front."--Alan E. Steinweis, Journal of Modern History "In this outstanding edition, Konrad H. Jarausch and his assistants Klaus J. Arnold and Eve M. Duffy have done an excellent job. The book contains an impressive biographical essay about the son's search for the father he never knew. Writers may succeed in producing approaches of this kind--at least sometimes. But historians? Usually such attempts fall flat. Yet this edition impressively proves the contrary--it is indeed possible."--Christian Hartmann, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface vii Foreword by Richard Kohn xiii In Search of a Father: Deaing with the Legacy of Nazi Complicity 1 Part I: The Polish Campaign 45 Letters from Poland, September 1939 to January 1940 53 Part II: Training Recruits 139 Letters from Poland and Germany, January 1940 to August 1941 146 Part III: War of Annihilation in Russia 237 Letters from Russia, August 1941 to January 1942 246 Acknowledgments 367 Notes to "In Search of a Father" 369 Selected Suggestions for Further Reading 381 Index 383
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Princeton University Press The Italian Executioners
Book SynopsisFirst published as I carnefici italiani in January 2015 by Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan, Italy.Trade Review"One of the Best Jewish Books of 2018 (Howard Freedman, Jewish News of Northern California)""[A] devastating historiographical counterblast. . . . The picture Levis Sullam paints is layered and locally inflected, rich with regional variation and human stories. . . . The result is an important, proportionate, by turns angry and moving corrective: a call to complete the picture of Italy’s Holocaust, to set alongside the stories of witnesses and righteous rescuers, the portraits of the perpetrators."---Robert Gordon, Times Literary Supplement"[A] vigorously revisionist history." * The Economist *"Simon Levis Sullam shatters myths of WWII Italy. . . . Whereas Nazism is completely taboo in Germany, fascism's symbols and ideas remain in full view in contemporary Italy. Right and far right political leaders in recent times, including Silvio Berlusconi, have tried to promote the myth of italiani brava gente in order to obscure the horrific aspects of the Fascism past. In effect, Levis Sullam's Italian Executioners warns against any attempt to make fascism appear normal."---Nick Doumanis, Sydney Morning Herald"Sullam describes in painstaking detail how ordinary Italians, in collaboration with the fascist police and military, enthusiastically participated in the arrest and persecution of Italian Jews, and how this has been erased from public memory and discourse, replaced by the myth of italiani brava gente—the 'good Italians.'"---Giulia Miller, Times Higher Education"[A] trailblazing book."---Janet Levy, Jerusalem Post"After decades of silence about Italian citizens’ role in the Holocaust, author Simon Levis Sullam restores the record."---Matt Lebovic, Times of Israel"A tight, focused history. . . . Stories of individuals rescuing Jews fill popular histories of that period, but Sullam's fresh, pointed research makes it depressingly clear that most Italians kept quiet and officials followed orders." * Kirkus *"An illuminating addition to Holocaust history." * Publishers Weekly *"At a time when some would prefer to keep ugly facts in the shadows, it is good that Levis Sullam and scholars like him keep working to shine the light of truth."---Michael M. Rosen, Weekly Standard"These stories are thoroughly sourced and written engagingly, with the myriad anecdotes combining to paint an important picture of Italian complicity in the Nazi-led genocide. The Italian Executioners is a valuable addition to the literature on the Holocaust and a crucial reminder that fascist Italy was no safe haven."---Jeff Fleischer, Foreword Reviews"Brilliant and authoritative. . . . [Simon Levis Sullam’s] book is short, but it is important for its impressive presentation of factual, largely unknown material and its damning conclusion that Italy failed to come to terms with its complex political and moral responsibilities."---Michael Curtis, American Thinker"Although this is a relatively short book of 142 pages of text, author Simon Levis Sullam has provided enough research, data and accounts to put the lie to the idea of the ‘good Italians,’ though surely there were some, and has produced a serious indictment and revisionist history of Italy’s collaboration with Germany in committing genocide." * New York Journal of Books *"A well-researched book that shatters the widely-held belief that Italians were brava gente, ‘good people,’ who protected their Jewish fellow citizens from the horrors of the Holocaust. . . . The Italian Executioners was painful reading for me because my 32 years of international interreligious work took me many times to Italy and the Vatican, where I grew to know and admire many leaders of the historic Italian Jewish community who had suffered such great losses. . . . Sullam’s meticulous scholarship, enhanced by his use of Italian language source material, has cast light on a sordid record of bigotry, prejudice, and hatred that until now has remained largely in the shadows. With the current rise of overt anti-Semitism in many parts of Europe, Sullam’s book is a powerful call for Italians to confront their troubled past."---Rabbi A. James Rudin, ReformJudaism.org"The Holocaust-related book that had the greatest impact on me was The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam. This short study challenges the common understanding that Italians did not share in the genocidal intentions of their Nazi allies. Sullam details the many ways in which Italians at all levels of society participated in the persecution of Jews, and he explains how the memory of these efforts was suppressed in the aftermath of World War II."---Howard Freedman, Jewish News of Northern California"The Italian Executioners is a short book. But it’s long enough to make a convincing argument for how frequently ordinary Italians, in Sullam’s words, served as ‘agents and accomplices of the Holocaust.’ There’s an understandable tone of anger, but it’s certainly warranted."---Gordon Haber, Forward"It is a short book, but hopefully it will be widely read as it is an important contribution to the Holocaust studies and hopefully it will encourage students to look at what happened in other European countries."---Kevin Winter, Manhattan Book Review"A detailed, harrowing account of the active participation of ordinary Italians in the deportation of Italian Jews between 1943 and 1945, as well as of the subsequent erasure of their responsibilities and absolution of all guilt during the postwar years."---Sergio Parussa, EuropeNow"Short but hard-hitting book."---Giuseppe Finaldi, European History Quarterly
£19.80
Princeton University Press The Spectre of War
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year 2021""A Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2021""Books of this quality and significance are rare. Haslam has mined the archives of all the main players to produce an excellent, game-changing thesis that is as convincing as it is original."---Saul David, The Times"It may be a cliché to say this is a book every intelligent person ought to read, but it really is."---Simon Heffer, The Telegraph"Anyone interested in global tensions in the interwar period will learn much from the latest book of Jonathan Haslam. . . . He draws on a lifetime of expertise on the Soviet Union and Russian foreign policy to explain how fear of communism permeated international relations after 1917."---Tony Barber, Financial Times"Drawing on sources in English, French, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish from archives across Europe (and beyond), The Spectre of War is full of fascinating stories that offer a unique glimpse into the tormented world on the eve of the Second World War. Elegantly crafted, it offers the reader the knowledge of a scholar who has worked in the field for decades."---David Motadel, Times Literary Supplement"2021’s most impressive work of history pulls together hidden threads to show how fear of Bolshevism poisoned international relations between the wars." * A Telegraph Best Book of the Year *"One of the year’s most impressive pieces of research."---Simon Heffer, A Telegraph Best New History Book
£20.90
Princeton University Press U.S. Marines and Amphibious Warfare
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface and Acknowledgments, pg. v*Contents, pg. ix*I. MISSION OF THE U.S. MARINES, THE AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT, pg. 1*II. EVOLUTION OF AN AMPHIBIOUS DOCTRINE, 1901-1934, pg. 14*III. TRAINING FOR AMPHIBIOUS WAR, 1934-1942, pg. 45*IV. BACKGROUND FOR GUADALCANAL, THE DECISION TO ATTACK, pg. 72*V. INITIAL OFFENSIVES, SOLOMONS-NEW BRITAIN-NEW GUINEA, pg. 99*VI. THE FIRST MAJOR ASSAULT, TARAWA, pg. 192*VII. THE MARSHALLS, GAINING MOMENTUM, pg. 253*VIII. THE MARIANAS, BASES FOR THE A.A.F., pg. 310*IX. PALAU AND THE PHILIPPINES: MARINES IN SUPPORT OF MACARTHUR, pg. 392*X. THE SUPREME TEST, IWO JIMA, pg. 432*XI. OKINAWA, SPRINGBOARD TO JAPAN, pg. 531*XII. AMPHIBIOUS PROGRESS, 1941-1945, pg. 580*REFERENCES, pg. 591*INDEX, pg. 627
£74.80
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas MacArthurs Ultra Codebreaking and the War
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which ULTRA (intelligence from decrypted Japanese radio communications) shaped MacArthur's operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. Drea also clarifies the role of ULTRA in Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan in 1945.
£28.01
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Closing with the Enemy How GIs Fought the War in
Book SynopsisThis work offers a view of how the GI and his officers fought the war. The author sets out to demonstrate that the key to the US success was the flexibility and ingenuity of its soldiers. He points out that the most important element in overcoming the Germans was intelligent front-line troops.
£24.71
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Propaganda Warriors Americas Crusade Against Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisThis work examines America's wartime propaganda campaign against Nazi Germany. Detailing the creation, evolution and field operations of the various agencies, it shows how they were as much at war with each other as with the Third Reich, due to a failure to establish an official propaganda policy.
£46.88
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Sharing Secrets with Stalin How the Allies
Book SynopsisThis study reveals the rich exchange of wartime intelligence between the Anglo-American allies and the Soviet Union, as well as the procedures and politics that made such an exchange possible. The book demonstrates that the demand for intelligence outpaced the ability of any one ally to produce it.
£44.06
